CW: 'No issues with Mischa Barton health'

The CW has insisted that Mischa Barton's recent health issues have not had an impact on her new drama The Beautiful Life.

The actress began production on the Manhattan-based show last week, just days after being released from a Los Angeles hospital where she had allegedly been sectioned for psychiatric evaluation.

Speaking to the Television Critics Association yesterday, studio head Dawn Ostroff said: "We were just concerned that [Mischa] wouldn't be able to be ready for production, but she was. It wasn't even an issue. She started work, so we're happy."

Barton reportedly failed to appear with her fellow castmates at a press conference in New York yesterday, although executive producer Ashton Kutcher insisted that he is happy with her performance.

"She was never unavailable for a day of work," he explained, before later posting a photograph of Barton smiling in the show's make-up trailer.

Co-executive producer Jason Goldberg added: "Like any production, you have to prepare [for the possibility of a replacement]. But in this show, we really never had to think [about her not coming back]. It never became an issue for us. Ever."

The Beautiful Life stars Barton as a veteran supermodel struggling to stay at the top of her profession.